A CHESTER artist will be joining Dr Who and The Queen on our TV screens this Christmas Day.

Lesley Halliwell will feature in Top Gear presenter James May’s BBC2 programme, My Sister’s Top Toys, on Tuesday December 25 at 10pm.

The programme is first aired this Sunday at 7pm.

The documentary is about the toys that James May remembers his sisters playing with back in the 1970s. One such toy is the Spirograph which plays a pivotal part in Lesley’s work.

She said: “Apparently James May had visited the Royal College of Art in London and asked the students to help him with a Spirograph. They couldn't do it so he came looking for someone who could. I have been using a Spirograph since I was eight years old but in recent years I have used it extensively in my art practice.

The BBC filmed Lesley’s part of the programme at her studio in Salford.

“The filming itself took a couple of hours and he asked me to teach him how to do the perfect Spirograph,” I can't say he went away an expert but he did complete one without fault.”

In the programme James projects a Spirograph on the side of the Royal Festival Hall